Need MFA to develop an app, and MFA still shows as disabled despite two devices being registered

Kewbak | 2026-02-22 01:49 | 9 views

I am working on a simple plain Bash TUI to interact with my car from the terminal and got the read-only part working, but to be able to send commands to the car, if I am not mistaken, I need the Fleet API with the \`vehicle-commands\` utility, and getting a Fleet API requires using [developer.tesla.com](http://developer.tesla.com) which won't work unless MFA is enabled. I have been trying for the last two days but despite devices being registered, I still hit the MFA wall every time. I have tried logging it a million times from my Android phone and from my laptop, same. Any ideas?

Comments (11)

intel64gamer 2026-02-23 00:34

Seeing the same thing. I need the API for evcc and I am kinda stuck.

LaWix 2026-02-24 07:19

Same ! Thank's i'm not crazy !

Dr_SPO 2026-02-25 07:59

I'm currently having the same issue. Were you able to solve this? I need read only access, any way to get this without a developer account?

Kewbak 2026-02-25 12:49

No I have not found any workaround, but seeing other answers here, I think the issue is on Tesla's side. I opened a ticket with them but I'm not sure I'll get an answer, there's not really any section corresponding to this kind of issues on the application. Meanwhile, I'm just using the MyTeslaMate API (without the subscription to get a Teslamate instance) to send commands with my TUI. It's available without a subscription but commands are still paid (500 commands = 1 eurodollar), so one needs to give their credit card data to MyTeslaMate, which is not ideal really. The fleet API thing is not optimal either anyway, since they made it really complicated with the certificate pairs to run \`vehicle-command\` (I do understand the security reasons for this though).

Madmadz16 2026-02-27 09:36

I also sent an email to them yesterday and they havent answered yet

Separate_Cry1156 2026-02-27 18:49

I’ve sent them email over a week ago about same issue 0 reply, in app chat absolutely clueless asked me to write another email to account that doesn’t even exist and coming back with undelivered messages errror

Separate_Cry1156 2026-02-27 18:55

Would you be so kind to let me know if received any answers? Also awaiting reply

Madmadz16 2026-02-27 23:26

I tried again now and it just worked

Separate_Cry1156 2026-02-28 00:17

I can’t believe I’ve wasted so much time to research a problem and it just work now

LaWix 2026-02-28 06:46

I contacted support and it's working now.

Kewbak 2026-02-28 12:31

It's finally working for me too. However I'm now not really sure how to use it, I need to read more about how the system works.

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